UNSW Handbook Course - Environment, Technology and Politics

Environment, Technology and Politics - HPSC2500


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: History and Phil. of Science
	Contact: Brown,Paul Frederick
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: SCTS2118
	Offered: Semester 1 2005
	Fee Band: 1

Description

Provides historical, social and political background for understanding the 'social crisis of the environment' - often blamed on the technological systems of 'Western Industrialised Society'. Also examines alternative visions such as 'Deep Ecology', 'Ecofeminism', and 'Ecological Democracy'. Key developments of thought and action in Western society are related to present day environmental politics. Topics include: pre-industrial developments in Europe; the ideas of the Enlightenment; changing images of nature; ecological impacts of industrialisation; globalisation; and public participation. Examples are drawn from the politics of energy systems, the relationship between agriculture and civilisation, and the politics of waste.

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